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The application was filed in 2006.
by lvs 11y ago
The application was filed in 2006.
- habitue 11y agoSure, but suing Corel is ongoing now. It's an expensive, active process Microsoft is engaging in
- overgard 11y agoSure, but the litigation is recent.
- tstrimple 11y agoDo you believe the litigation to be egregious? The Corel tools go so far as to provide "Microsoft Excel Mode", "Microsoft Word Mode", etc... all which are designed to allow Corel to profit off of a user interface designed by Microsoft. In the case of the slider, it looks exactly the same and is used in the exact same place, in the exact same way, in a competing product.
- habitue 11y agoIt doesn't sound like they are trying to profit off of Microsoft's design. They're reacting to the reality that Microsoft has a near monopoly in the word processing market, and many users are much more familiar with that interface. It makes it easier to transition a new user if the interface feels familiar. If they were actually trying to profit from Microsoft's design, they wouldn't be providing a "Microsoft Word Mode" they would just make that their only interface. The idea is that they would be trying to avoid innovating themselves and would just be attempting to use Microsoft's interface design research to make a quick buck. You see how this is not about trying to cut corners in designing an interface, and more about user familiarity? (I'm being charitable here in assuming for the sake of argument that design is a legitimate thing to patent. I don't think that's the case)
- clort 11y agoeven more so, there are a percentage of people who are of the opinion that they will not learn another interface than the Microsoft one because that is the one that they will be forced to use at work anyway. [lets not get into how wrong they are, they exist that is all] I have no wider proof, but of non-technical people I know who use Windows they pretty much all fall into this category.
- cryptoz 11y agoMicrosoft filed this lawsuit against Corel 10 days ago (December 18, 2015), claiming all profits to Corel Home Office.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoMicrosoft's lawyers have most likely been working on this case for a while so who knows how recently this process started. Having said that yeah this is pretty disappointing behavior but I wouldn't be surprised if it's simply part of the company doing things others don't know about; maybe if enough attention is drawn to it it'll be dropped? Yeah that's probably unlikely but so many of their groups are full of awesome people and it sucks when a company does something stupid to tarnish its image.
- EGreg 11y agoWow, that should get them a whole couple million dollars! Is Corel still big?
- _nedR 11y agoi have never used Corel Draw personally, but here in India, I have seen it (maybe very old versions )being used in PCB printing and laser cutting shops (probably other shops too that i haven't seen/can't recall now). Seems like a defacto standard in that niche. Don't know whether there are other popular alternatives in the industry though.